Police officers and local residents face off during an SRP visit to the border with Vietnam on Monday. (Photo by: Zela Chin)Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Meas Sokchea
The Phnom Penh Post
"When the authorities exaggerate ... how can people have confidence in them?"SVAY Rieng provincial police Chief Prach Rim says 15 police officers were injured by Sam Rainsy Party parliamentarians who scuffled with them in an attempt to investigate the Cambodian-Vietnamese border on Monday.
Around 40 provincial police were dispatched to an area near the border in Svay Rieng’s Chantrea district where the SRP delegation and local residents planned to visit the site of an October demonstration by opposition president Sam Rainsy to protest alleged Vietnamese incursion into Cambodian territory.
“They pushed and hit police officers. Some were injured in the head, some on the cheek, some on the hands and legs,” Prach Rim said. “My police did not hit back – they just held on.”
Prach Rim added that he regretted the fact that his officers could not hold back the SRP delegation because of the pushing and shoving.
The SRP rejected the allegations of violence in a press release issued on Tuesday.
“This news is not true – it is twisted, without basis, in order to defame the SRP, which has always struggled for freedom, justice and democracy in Cambodia,” the statement read, adding that it was the police who had armed themselves in an effort to prevent the delegation from visiting the border.
The SRP called the police chief’s accusations an attempt to hide the fact that the border markers have been placed in locations that deny Cambodian residents their ancestral land, and asked the government to review the demarcation process with Vietnam.
On Monday afternoon, Chantrea district residents and about 20 SRP parliamentarians engaged in a minor scuffle with provincial police as the officers attempted to block the delegation from accessing the site where Sam Rainsy joined local villagers in uprooting six wooden border posts in October.
The SRP leader says he is facing charges of incitement and destruction of property in connection with the incident, though Svay Rieng court officials on Tuesday declined to comment on the case.
Nget Nara, Svay Rieng provincial coordinator for the rights group Adhoc, was part of the group that travelled to the border Monday. He dismissed the allegations of violence as politically motivated.
“The parliamentarians’ group did not hit or injure police. This is an unreasonable statement – the parliamentarians and people just wanted to see the border demarcation,” Nget Nara said. “The police had shields and bats to block them.”
SRP Secretary General Ke Sovannroth said that the provincial police chief’s accusations called into question the government’s credibility.
“When the authorities exaggerate like this, how can people have confidence in them?” she said.
18 comments:
Does CPP want to lift immunity of these SRP MP?
9:39PM,
CPP are pathetic! You know they used them low life troops to plan bad images of the citizens.
It sounds like the Police in Svay Rieng is a gentle goat. They did not protect themselves when they had shields, sticks, and weapons. May be those police are stupid if the chief of police's words were true.
those polices are really yuon face
Big liar!!!baby test for you.police with gun and villagers with empty hand...how can it be???
What the hell? hahahaha. What a total nonsense from ah SvayPromess Police chief. How could your formidable police officers be injured when all of them were well-equipped with helmets, facial shiel, and body shield, boots, and protective clothing? Hahah. If you are going to lie, then you must learn to lie like your boss ah Hun Sh*t who told the King that none of the Khmer farmers has lost any farmland to the Vietnamese. Hahah. Then his SLAVE ah Svar Tayhorng said that if any Khmer farmers do not want their farmland to be affected by Vietnam, then they should have their rice field in the "sky". Hahha. Then also ah SvayPromess Provincial governer also said through his teeth that Vietnamese claiming Khmer territory is normal. What the f*ck! Lol.
Hey ah SvayPromess ler ker Police Chief LIAR, the SRP folks' objective was to check the border area that people claim that their farmland has been shrinking because of the border demarcation. Their objective is not to hurt any of you abusers at all. They showed up barehand while you abusers were well-equipped with STICKS and stuff. So who could hurt you? You stupid f*ckers!
This news was also perpetrated by Ah Soy-Sophuck at Dap-new.com. With no evidence of course. lol. Where is ah Soy-Sophuck when the Khmer farmers need help from stoping ah YOUNs? No where in sight. Where is ah Khieu Kanharidth when the Khmer farmers need help stopping ah YOUNs from pushing further in? Where is ah Hun Sen when Khmer farmers need help stopping ah Youns from stealing more of their land? No where.
AH HUN SEN government claimed to know the need of dirt poor Cambodian people in general! Now why AH HUN SEN government ignore the need of dirt poor Cambodian farmers who lost their to the Vietcong encroachment!
Dirt poor Cambodian people and dirt poor Cambodian farmers doesn't need a handout from AH HUN SEN government and what Cambodian people need is the right to lead a productive life on their land free from the Vietcong encroachment! Their right to be heard and understand as Cambodian citizen!
Cambodian people are not animal and deserve to be help! If these Cambodian people are animal then let them die according to the law of nature!
The CPP government is a currupted and dictatorship likeness runned by hanoi! No one dares to assult this fugen evil government force.
Very manipulated government!
I hope this government day are numbering soon.
When the Cam-Viet Governement stop harass to the cambodian people?
CCP should change their name to Camviet slave.
Khmer republic
Any and all Khmers who work to protect the Yuon interest should be hung for the sake of Khmer livelihood. These are the stupidest low life who know not the meaning of national unity but a bow of rice and a bow of soup with white wine will buy their heads. Puok a chhkae kanh cheah Yuon.
don't be a bloody sook!
One has to give credit to the CPP.
If it was the Khmer Rouge, all of those MP's were executed on the spot.
People are complaining about Hun Sen and youns but they don't realize how much better Cambodia has become under his leadership. Be proud of your government.
Khmer in USA
8:05AM are you one of the K Rouge ? why do you think it's better to abuse less than more. In the free world you just don't abuse, period.
To 8:05AM
Cambodia has become better under Hun Sen leadership? Hey fool! dirt poor Cambodian people had been condition to think the same way like you for a very long time (over 30 years!) You want dirt poor Cambodian to accept status quo?
Do you think without HUN SEN and Cambodian people don't know how to live better and want to be poor and be a victim of Siem and Viet aggression?
Yes...Cambodia has become so much better even after Hun Sen government committed corruption around 500 million dollars a year and force dirt poor Cambodian to live on 1 dollar a day!
Police Chief Prach Rim is a liar because his brain is being eaten by Vietnamese termites. From: Reth
Ah Chh'kae {rach Rim, Ah Kanh Cheas Cor Yuon Hanoi.
Ah Runyteas Banh, Ah Kh'bot cheat Khmer.
Ah Preah Pak Ra Mouk,
Ah Ngorb Tai Haorng.
Danger! Danger! Cambodia is very small country. How can you afford to make troubles with your two giant neighbors at the same time? Think twice. While we are busy having trouble with Thai, Sam Ransy is making trouble with Youn. I am not saying problem with Youn is not worth to consider. But the truth is that we can not afford to solve these two problems at once.
It is Hun Sen's trick. He is making trouble with Thai so all people focus on the west. And the same time Hun Sen and Hanoi are speeding their effort to demarcate border quietly.
I think we should think strategically what to do. We should mobilize all our resources to think and solve one problem at a time. Please help me think about this.
To 12:12PM
Say who want to make trouble with the Siem and the Viet? If the fucken Siem and the fucken Viet don't encroach on Cambodian sovereignty and there wouldn't be anything to talk and argue about!
The fucken Siem and the fucken Viet think that they are bigger countries with more population and that give them the right to abuse small Cambodia? I say fuck the Siem and fuck the Viet because they better watch out because there are many bigger countries next to them if they want to cause more trouble for Cambodia and they better think twice!
Cambodia is small but mighty!
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